Did it lose them, or was a variety lacking in these traits what humans first discovered and used? It's been domesticated so long, we can't really know.
I was going to bring up the feral pig example as well.
In fact the only domestic species I can think of that isn't capable of being really successful as a feral animal, is the wool sheep. But hair sheep are perfectly capable of going feral (as anyone with Barbados sheep should be painfully aware), and that's a difference in breed type, not a species deficiency, so I guess we can't even exclude sheep generally. (Ditto some breeds of dog, but dogs generally do quite well as feral populations.)
There's a big difference between "sterilize the disabled" and "don't preserve a genetic defect by helping it reproduce when it couldn't do so on its own".
Genital surgery of one sort or another goes back as far as humanity. What do folks think circumcision IS, anyway? what about eunuchs, which sometimes were not only castrated, but also had the penis cut off? how about the various, um, 'decorative' things primitive peoples often do to both male and female genitals? (Sometimes it's a wonder they could still reproduce.)
"And the bright ones will FIND something intriguing about the most dull of subjects."
I think that's a good point. The difference between poor teaching and good teaching may be whether it encourages finding interest this way, even in "dull" stuff like rote-learned subjects. I had almost all good teachers all the way through school.
Garbage trucks may not travel very far, but they run continuously for 10-12 hours per day. Also need power to run the hydraulics for the onboard crusher.
There are probably just as many school buses, and they indeed usually do two short trips per day. (Tho rural buses may travel long distances, up to 200 miles per day.)
Ouch. I really need to keep it around $30/mo. or less. I mostly use the phone for talk, never text, seldom data.
I had T-Mobile for $30/1500 min. but it's all roaming here (mostly to AT&T, that part works fine) and when roaming, you can't pick up voicemail at all!
Just skimmed the article you linked, but it appears that these haulouts in odd places happen when their usual spots are fully occupied -- IOW, when there's a spike in walrus population.
Perhaps the truth is they do better under warmer conditions (likely due to more food).
BTW the last hard figures I saw on polar bear numbers showed they're on the increase.
Since I'm also in a Sprint-sucks area, I looked through all the Verizon and AT&T mnvo's a while back. All had outrageous prices if you use the phone more than a miniscule amount. Do you know of one that doesn't?
Are there any outfits that offer similar plans that are resellers for either Verizon or AT&T?
Because tho those are attractive plans for my usage, Republic Wireless is a Sprint reseller, and in my area that means 1) ALL use is 100% roaming (which causes all manner of issues, among them voicemail only works over WiFi) and 2) coverage via the actual Sprint towers that the phone will speak to is spotty at best. (Yes, that sounds contradictory, but I used a Sprint reseller before and had both a very restricted service area AND was =always= roaming.)
Conversely both Verizon and AT&T have good local service.
And I've already had my experience with a Sprint reseller up and selling the whole company to Virgin, which charges for roaming (at a rate 5x the price I'd signed up for) -- which is typical exit strategy for these small resellers.
This is why we remember events like Waco -- not because they were dissidents, but because they were *armed* dissidents who put up a fight.
[This applies regardless of your opinion on whether the dissidents had a valid point or were just, uh, whackos.]
The same could be said of the American War for Independence -- if they were not *armed* dissidents, they'd be long-forgotten and we'd all be singing "God Save the Queen".
About as silly as my little.22 lever-action rifle being classed as an "assault weapon" because it happens to hold 13 bullets (plus the chamber). Cuz as everyone knows, anything over 9 means an assault weapon.
I suggest a parallel law for hammers: any hammer with claws is okay, but any hammer of the same weight but with two blunt ends, like the deadly ballpeen hammer, should be classed as an assault hammer...
I don't know about if it's kept in RAM (tho it's not that big compared to typical RAM on concurrent machines) but the easy way to keep it tidy is to apply this free tool (which I've been using for 15? years now, and have never seen it screw up):
And for ghu's sakes, defrag. I don't care what Windows says. Defrag. Regularly.
You wouldn't run your car forever without changing the oil, would you? Computers need maintenance too.
As to the wipe and reinstall thing... I consider that the resort of ignorance, like buying a new car instead of changing the oil or brake pads in the old one. I have very old Windows setups (from 3.1 onward), some with over a decade in everyday use, that are still as slick as the day it was installed. How, you ask? I defrag and apply EasyCleaner regularly, and occasionally kill tempfiles. That's it.
That's great if I remember what the hell I'm looking for is named... and any linux user oughta know that filename, app name, and what it does often have squat to do with each other. Perhaps Windows is just trying to catch up on that front.:/
As it was explained to me by the engineering dept. at SoCalEdison, the more power I use, the more it costs them, so they'd rather I used less, and if I used none at all that would be perfect.
Incidentally Sam's Club has started putting little wind generators on the lampposts in their parking lots. Manager at the one I frequented in SoCal told me this had already dropped their power bill by 5%, which is significant if you're in retail (even bulk-wholesale-priced retail).
I've had CFLs all over the map too, from with lifespan in months to over a decade. When they fail, first they get dim, and at that point the transformer is also getting too hot. I pitch them then as a fire hazard (I've had 'em seriously brown the lamp socket).
On thinking about it, tho, CFL and incandescent lifespan was about the same in a given fixture or socket. I put one of each in several fixtures (both open and enclosed, some old, some new), and in the 13 years I owned the house, not a one of those burned out. Conversely anything I put in the open porch socket burned out in a few months, regardless of the season. The large open desk lamps, always in 3 to 5 years. How much a given light was used didn't seem to be a factor.
I've found that the first symptom that the transformer is going bad (without going around burning my fingers on 'em) is that the CFL gets dimmer. Without fail, those have overheating transformers.
I've had 'em last anywhere from a few months to over 12 years. Perhaps significant, incandescent lifespan was similar in the same sockets.
There's a guy north of Los Angeles who did that with junk property -- sold it over and over with owner financing, and the expectation that the buyer would default. Last I heard he'd sold the same junk lot five times and made way more than he had in it.
Back in the ancient times of carburetors, the way most Fords came from the factory, they'd start easy but stall when idling. If you fixed that, they'd idle good but would take two tries to start. (Which I found preferable to having to restart in traffic.)
I like your solution, with the warning light and delayed disable. I'll bet these lenders' liability insurers would prefer it too.
Just for comparison with the cost of a monthly loan payment, I figured out that major maintenance on my old truck averages around $700 every three years. This includes stuff like having the engine and transmission rebuilt.
OTOH, liability insurance (at best rates) over the lifetime of the truck has so far come to four times what I paid for the truck brand new, in 1978.
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Did it lose them, or was a variety lacking in these traits what humans first discovered and used? It's been domesticated so long, we can't really know.
I was going to bring up the feral pig example as well.
In fact the only domestic species I can think of that isn't capable of being really successful as a feral animal, is the wool sheep. But hair sheep are perfectly capable of going feral (as anyone with Barbados sheep should be painfully aware), and that's a difference in breed type, not a species deficiency, so I guess we can't even exclude sheep generally. (Ditto some breeds of dog, but dogs generally do quite well as feral populations.)
There's a big difference between "sterilize the disabled" and "don't preserve a genetic defect by helping it reproduce when it couldn't do so on its own".
Genital surgery of one sort or another goes back as far as humanity. What do folks think circumcision IS, anyway? what about eunuchs, which sometimes were not only castrated, but also had the penis cut off? how about the various, um, 'decorative' things primitive peoples often do to both male and female genitals? (Sometimes it's a wonder they could still reproduce.)
"And the bright ones will FIND something intriguing about the most dull of subjects."
I think that's a good point. The difference between poor teaching and good teaching may be whether it encourages finding interest this way, even in "dull" stuff like rote-learned subjects. I had almost all good teachers all the way through school.
Garbage trucks may not travel very far, but they run continuously for 10-12 hours per day. Also need power to run the hydraulics for the onboard crusher.
There are probably just as many school buses, and they indeed usually do two short trips per day. (Tho rural buses may travel long distances, up to 200 miles per day.)
Ouch. I really need to keep it around $30/mo. or less. I mostly use the phone for talk, never text, seldom data.
I had T-Mobile for $30/1500 min. but it's all roaming here (mostly to AT&T, that part works fine) and when roaming, you can't pick up voicemail at all!
Bad link..??
Count me on the side of people who used to "believe" in AGW, and in GW generally, but then looked at larger data and changed my mind.
Just skimmed the article you linked, but it appears that these haulouts in odd places happen when their usual spots are fully occupied -- IOW, when there's a spike in walrus population.
Perhaps the truth is they do better under warmer conditions (likely due to more food).
BTW the last hard figures I saw on polar bear numbers showed they're on the increase.
Since I'm also in a Sprint-sucks area, I looked through all the Verizon and AT&T mnvo's a while back. All had outrageous prices if you use the phone more than a miniscule amount. Do you know of one that doesn't?
Are there any outfits that offer similar plans that are resellers for either Verizon or AT&T?
Because tho those are attractive plans for my usage, Republic Wireless is a Sprint reseller, and in my area that means 1) ALL use is 100% roaming (which causes all manner of issues, among them voicemail only works over WiFi) and 2) coverage via the actual Sprint towers that the phone will speak to is spotty at best. (Yes, that sounds contradictory, but I used a Sprint reseller before and had both a very restricted service area AND was =always= roaming.)
Conversely both Verizon and AT&T have good local service.
And I've already had my experience with a Sprint reseller up and selling the whole company to Virgin, which charges for roaming (at a rate 5x the price I'd signed up for) -- which is typical exit strategy for these small resellers.
This is why we remember events like Waco -- not because they were dissidents, but because they were *armed* dissidents who put up a fight.
[This applies regardless of your opinion on whether the dissidents had a valid point or were just, uh, whackos.]
The same could be said of the American War for Independence -- if they were not *armed* dissidents, they'd be long-forgotten and we'd all be singing "God Save the Queen".
About as silly as my little .22 lever-action rifle being classed as an "assault weapon" because it happens to hold 13 bullets (plus the chamber). Cuz as everyone knows, anything over 9 means an assault weapon.
I suggest a parallel law for hammers: any hammer with claws is okay, but any hammer of the same weight but with two blunt ends, like the deadly ballpeen hammer, should be classed as an assault hammer...
Rather, it's a way of making an arrest when the cops couldn't really hang anything on a person otherwise.
I don't know about if it's kept in RAM (tho it's not that big compared to typical RAM on concurrent machines) but the easy way to keep it tidy is to apply this free tool (which I've been using for 15? years now, and have never seen it screw up):
http://personal.inet.fi/busine...
And for ghu's sakes, defrag. I don't care what Windows says. Defrag. Regularly.
You wouldn't run your car forever without changing the oil, would you? Computers need maintenance too.
As to the wipe and reinstall thing... I consider that the resort of ignorance, like buying a new car instead of changing the oil or brake pads in the old one. I have very old Windows setups (from 3.1 onward), some with over a decade in everyday use, that are still as slick as the day it was installed. How, you ask? I defrag and apply EasyCleaner regularly, and occasionally kill tempfiles. That's it.
So if you want to "inspect" someone, just start a wildfire nearby, and you've got all the excuse you need!
Well, this IS Governor Moonbeam, after all... if he is for or against something, best consider cui bono.
That's great if I remember what the hell I'm looking for is named... and any linux user oughta know that filename, app name, and what it does often have squat to do with each other. Perhaps Windows is just trying to catch up on that front. :/
As it was explained to me by the engineering dept. at SoCalEdison, the more power I use, the more it costs them, so they'd rather I used less, and if I used none at all that would be perfect.
Incidentally Sam's Club has started putting little wind generators on the lampposts in their parking lots. Manager at the one I frequented in SoCal told me this had already dropped their power bill by 5%, which is significant if you're in retail (even bulk-wholesale-priced retail).
I've had CFLs all over the map too, from with lifespan in months to over a decade. When they fail, first they get dim, and at that point the transformer is also getting too hot. I pitch them then as a fire hazard (I've had 'em seriously brown the lamp socket).
On thinking about it, tho, CFL and incandescent lifespan was about the same in a given fixture or socket. I put one of each in several fixtures (both open and enclosed, some old, some new), and in the 13 years I owned the house, not a one of those burned out. Conversely anything I put in the open porch socket burned out in a few months, regardless of the season. The large open desk lamps, always in 3 to 5 years. How much a given light was used didn't seem to be a factor.
I've found that the first symptom that the transformer is going bad (without going around burning my fingers on 'em) is that the CFL gets dimmer. Without fail, those have overheating transformers.
I've had 'em last anywhere from a few months to over 12 years. Perhaps significant, incandescent lifespan was similar in the same sockets.
There's a guy north of Los Angeles who did that with junk property -- sold it over and over with owner financing, and the expectation that the buyer would default. Last I heard he'd sold the same junk lot five times and made way more than he had in it.
Back in the ancient times of carburetors, the way most Fords came from the factory, they'd start easy but stall when idling. If you fixed that, they'd idle good but would take two tries to start. (Which I found preferable to having to restart in traffic.)
I like your solution, with the warning light and delayed disable. I'll bet these lenders' liability insurers would prefer it too.
Just for comparison with the cost of a monthly loan payment, I figured out that major maintenance on my old truck averages around $700 every three years. This includes stuff like having the engine and transmission rebuilt.
OTOH, liability insurance (at best rates) over the lifetime of the truck has so far come to four times what I paid for the truck brand new, in 1978.